Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
clavy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
clevis .
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Examples
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Above -- on the clavel-piece -- were festooned strings of dried apples, pumpkins, and peppers.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Eagi Fruftus, Oleum, Cineres clavel - qvAL. inHpida.
D. Io. Davidis Schoepf ... Materia medica americana potissimvm regni vegetabilis Schöpf, Johann David, 1752-1800 1787
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